Description

Examining History

Your Subversion repository is like a time machine. It keeps
a record of every change ever committed, and allows you to
explore this history by examining previous versions of files and
directories as well as the metadata that accompanies them. With
a single Subversion command, you can check out the repository
(or restore an existing working copy) exactly as it was at any
date or revision number in the past. However, sometimes you
just want to peer into the past instead of
going into the past.

There are several commands that can provide you with
historical data from the repository:

svn log

Shows you broad information: log messages with date
and author information attached to revisions, and which
paths changed in each revision.

svn diff

Shows line-level details of a particular change.

svn cat

Retrieves a file as it existed in a particular
revision number and display it on your screen.